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Cloud computing. What once was a controversial, cutting-edge term is now part of seemingly everyone’s vocabulary.
From ads in last year’s Super Bowl to billboards in airports across the world, “the cloud” is everywhere. Many of today’s solutions do offer …
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Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to …
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Software giant SAP acquired internet software company SuccessFactors on Saturday for $3.4 billion, in what most accounts praised as a commendable move to embrace the so-called “cloud.”
The “cloud” is a buzz-word that refers to the new way applications are …
At the CloudBeat conference today, we caught up with Oracle VP Rick Schultz and asked him to elaborate on Oracle’s upcoming public cloud offering.
Fresh off a session about public and private cloud technologies, Schultz spoke about the importance of …
Marketing automation firm Eloqua is in a “quiet period,” but that didn’t stop CEO Joe Payne at CloudBeat 2011 from talking about his company and how the basic SaaS services it provides are transforming business.
For reference, Eloqua offers various …
About two months ago, Oracle announced it would finally take the plunge into public cloud computing with the Oracle Public Cloud. Oracle technology product marketing VP Rick Schultz talked more about the public cloud today and admitted it was a …
Oracle filed court documents late last week contending that Hewlett-Packard and Intel have secretly been keeping the unpopular Itanium server chip alive, even though no one wants to buy it.
“HP has secretly contracted with Intel to keep churning out …
Oracle plans to acquire cloud-based sales force automation and customer service company RightNow for $1.5 billion, the company announced Monday morning.
The planned acquisition makes a ton a sense in light of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s announcement earlier this month …
The judge in the ongoing Google/Oracle lawsuit over Android and its use of Java has issued a stay. That means the trial will be delayed, and no new date has yet been set.
Sources close to the matter tell us …
Oracle has paid out in excess of $199.5 million to settle a case with the U.S. government.
The case, which was brought to light by former Oracle senior director of contract services Paul Frascella in 2007 and was pursued by …
Everybody should see Marc Benioff live and unplugged. The chief executive of Salesforce.com gave an amusing keynote speech at the AME restaurant in San Francisco this week after getting booted out of Oracle OpenWorld 2011.
We caught his Q&A with …
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday finally announced that his company would take the plunge into public cloud computing with Oracle Public Cloud. He made the announcement on stage at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference.
Oracle’s emphasis for several years has been …
Today Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com, warned everybody in the tech industry to embrace social networking and cloud computing or face obsolescence.
In a talk that was originally supposed to be a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, Benioff said, …
Just a day before the talk, Oracle canceled the keynote speech of competitor Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com. Benioff was scheduled to talk about cloud computing at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference on Wednesday morning.
But Benioff, in classic …
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Confused about the difference between trademark and copyright? Don’t be. It’s a mad, mad world, and even Oracle is getting it mixed up, in its suit against Google.
Sun v. Microsoft
Ten years ago, when Sun sued Microsoft over Java, …
This week, three surprising scenarios emerged in initial depositions in the ongoing Google/Oracle lawsuit.
First, a Google engineer admitted he may have copied Sun’s code in his work on Android.
Also, Google documents show the company worked to give Motorola …
Online video publisher Brightcove has filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $50 million, according to an S-1 form filed with the SEC.
Brightcove makes it possible for large and small content providers to publish video content …
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HP has had to face tough realities this week. Fortunately, there is a way for it to survive: Embrace the inevitable trend favoring “vertical” companies.
In the first part of the 2000s, IBM and HP went in two vastly different …
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Google’s plan to buy Motorola Mobility will likely win approval from the Department of Justice, just as Oracle earlier received approval to buy Sun. The acquisition will double Google’s workforce and increase the size of its patent portfolio to more …
Oracle chief executive and fifth richest person in the world Larry Ellison is indisputably one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley. He has also managed to spawn a generation of notable tech leaders, as you can see in …
